Dumping-wagon.



T. WRIGHT. PUMPING WAGON.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 29, 1909.

Patented NOV. 9,1909.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1 A TTOHNE Y8 T. WRIGHT.

DUMPING WAGON.

A'PPLIOATION FILED MAY 29, 1909.

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' Application ales May as, 1909. Serial No. issuer To all whom'it may concern:

Be it known that l, THOMAS W'nronr, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Dumping-Wagon, of which the following is full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relatesto duinpii'ig wagons and carts such as used by coal dealers in delivering coal.

The object of the invention is to produce a wagon having improved mechanism for raising the body into an elevated and inclined position for dumpingthe load.

A special object is to provide a construction which will be capable raising the body to an unusually high elevation.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts to be more fully described hereinafter and particularly. set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanyingdrawings forming a part of this specification, in'which similar-characters of refer-- ence indicate correspondingparts in all the fig! es.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section throng the truck of the wagon, the body of the wagon and certain of the parts being shown in elevation, this view shows the body in" a partly elevated position; Fig. 2 is a longi' tudinalsection through the truck, the body of the wagon being shown in elevation and broken away, this viewshows the body in its normal or depressed position upon the truck; Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on the line 33 of Fi 1, and further illustrating the -construction of the elevating mechanisinyl ig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3, but taken on the line l r of ig. l; and Fig. 5 is a detail showing the 3211111813 of attaching the front legs of the elevating .mechanism to the body. 45

Referring more particfilarly to the parts, 1 represents the body the wagon or cart which is supported upon a truck 2, said truck being composed of side bars 25 0011-" nected by cross bar; or forward bolsters 4 at the front, and connected at the rear by 'a rear bolster Near its middle the truck construction comprises a transverse beam 6, and just forward of this beam 1 provide a niain shaft 7 attachedto the under side of the "side bars or string. This shaft is adapts cite driven tl-maigi a gear train 8 disposed at the side of the wagon, as in dicated. The mechanism for connection with the gear train includes a' brake wheel 9, about which a brake band or strap .0 passes, said brake band being attached to a brake lever 11, as indicated. By operating; this brake lever 11 a high frictional resistance may be offered to the rotation of the brake wheel 9 and the gear from. in this way the body of the wagon may be held in an elevated position or allowed to descend slowly to it normal or depressed position.

Near the front of the truck 1 provide guide rails 1:2, which are attached to the inner sides of the side bars 3. These guide rails have horizontal extensions 13 and inclined extensions 1 which terminate in hooks or seats 15. On the guide rails, rollers 1e are adapted to roll, as indicated, and these rollers normally rest upon the seats 15 when the wagon body is in its depressed position. These rollers are carried rigidly upon an axle or roller shaft 17, and on this axle, chain wheels 18 are provided In order to advance the shaft 17 i provide chains 19, the rear ends ofv which are attached to ustable anchor bolts 20 mounted in brackets 21 on the beam 6. These chains form loops 22 passing around the chain wheels, and the other ends of the chains are attached to and wrap upon the shaft 7 in c0ils'23, as indicated in Fig. 3.

Near the ends of the shaft 17, main legs 2% are attached, and when the body is being raised, these legs are disposed in an inclined position, as indicated in Fig. l. The upper ends of the legs are provided with trans; verse cross pins-25, the ends of which project and are received in guides 26 attached to the under side of the body, indicated. These guides siinply consist of longitudinal straps or bars offset downwardly so as to form guide slots 27 receiving the ends of the cross pins, as will be readily understood.

In connection with each of the main legs 24:, a piir of links 28 is provided. The upper ends of these links are attached to the cross pins between the main legs and the guides, as shown most clearly in These links 28 extend ,toward the 1r the body and are attached to the lower ends of floating levers 29. There are two of these levers at each side of the body, as indicated in Fig. l, and the upper ends of the levers are pivotally secured in brackets 30 on the under side of the body. Between each pair ill) of floating levers 29, a front. leg 31 is pivotally attached.- These front legs 31 extend toward the rear of-the wagon and are pivotallyattached at their r'ear ends on brackets 32 seated on the upper side 'of the beam 6. The rear .ends of the guides 26 are formed into cheek plates 33 which are riveted to the sides of the body, as shown, and to these cheek plates 33, .back legs 34 are pivotally attachedby suitable pins or bolts- 35. These back legs 34 extend toward the rear end of the wagon, and are pivotally mounted on suitable brackets 36 seated on, the cross beam 5.

In order to stiffen the front legs 31, they are connected near their middle point by a cross bar or brace- 37 having expanded feet at the ends'thereof connected to the legsby rivets 38, as shown.

When the wagon body is in its depressed position, the bottom of the wagon rests upon the frame of the truck and the elevating mechanism lies folded under the body, as

indicated in F igl 2.

In order to provide for adjustments in the connection 'between the front legs 31 and the floating levers 29, the attachment'between these parts is made by means of removable bolts 39, and a plurality of bolt openings 40 is provided in the floating levers in which the bolts 39 may be attached. The preferred form of the floating levers is very clearly shown in Fig. 5 These levers are short, as shown, and their lower portions the shaft is rotated inv this wag I the levers 29 will come into a curve slightly toward the rear of the wagon. The links 28 are pivotally attached to the lower ends of the levers, as indicated.

In order to elevate the body, it is necessary to rotate the shaft 7 in a proper direction by means of the gear train 8'. When the chains are wound upon the shaft an the rollers 16 rollup on the inclined extensions 14 of the guide rails 12. In this way through the main legs 24 a thrust is exerted which rodifces a tension in thelinks 28. These links 28 then operate through 'the floating levers 29 and the legs 31 so asto raise the body. The effect of the floating levers inbringiug about an increasedinclination of the body is clearly shown by dotted lines in Fig. l, as the body reaches the limit of its elevation osition such that they will project longitudlnally of the legs 31; in other words, they virtually increase the length of these legs at this time. As indicated in Fig. 1, as the body becomes .elevated, the legs 31 and 34 are disposed substantially parallel with each other.

Having thus described my invention, I clai'rn'as new and desire to secure by Let I ters Patent, i

11. In a dumping cart or wagon,'in combination, a truck, a body there-above, guides attachedto said body,;ma1n legs guided at in said main legs, front legs pivotally mounted on said truck, links connected with the ends of said ma-in legs, and members connecting said links with said front legs piv olally attached to the wagon body and adapted to support the wagon body.

2. In a dumping cart or wagon, in combination, a truck, a body thereabove, ides attached to said body, main legs gui ed at one end in said guides, means for guidin the other ends of said main legs on sai truck, means for exerting an upward thrust insaid main legs, front legs pivotally mounted on said truck, links connectedwith the ends of said main legs, members connectin said links with said frontlegs connecte' directly with the wagon body and adapted to support the same, and means independent of the aforesaid parts for guiding the rear portion of said body..

' 3. In a dumping cart or wagon, in combination, a truck, a body having guides attached to the under side thereof, main legs having their upper ends guided in said guides, means for guiding the lower ends of said main le on said truck, floating levers attached to t e under side of said body forwardly thereof, links connecting the upper ends of said main legs with said floating levers, and front legs pivotally mounted on said truck and pivotally attached tov said floating levers. v

4. In a dumping cart or wagon, in combi nation, a truck, a body having guides attached to the under side thereof, ma-in le having their upper ends guided in said guides, means for guiding the lower ends of said main legs on said truck, floatlng levers attached to the under side of said body for- \vardly thereof, links connecting the upper ends of said main legs with said floating levers, front legs pivotally mounted on sai truck and pivotally attached. to said fioating levers, and back legs pivotally attached truck. I

5. In a dumping cart or wagon, in combination, a truck, a body above said truck having uides on the under side thereof disposed to said body and pivotally mounted onsaid longitudinally of said-body, guide I rails in said truck, main legs havin their upper ends guided in said guides, 'rol ersattaehed to the lower ends of said main legs and running on said guide rails, means for.

advancing said main legs to elevate said body floating levers pivotally mounted on v the under side of said body forwardly thereof, links connecting the lower ends of said levers and the upper ends of said main legs, 'front legs pivotally attachedto saidle ers at an intermediate point thereon and pivotally attached to said truck, and rear legspivotally attached to said truck and to otally attached to said truck and pivotall'y sald body. attached to said floating levers at one of said 6. In a dumping cart or Wagon, in combiopenings, links connecting the ends of said 15 nation, a truck, abodythereabova'guides atfloatlng levers with said cross pins, and.

tached to the under side of said body exmeans for guiding the rear end of said body? tending longitudinally thereof, main legs In testimony whereof I have signed my 7 having cross pins at their upper ends runname tothis specification in the presence of ning in saidguides, means for idi'ng and two subscribing Witnesses.

advancing-the lower ends of sai main legs, THOMAS WRIGHT.: .floatin eversgpivotally attached to said Wiwn'esses: body orwardly thereof and having a pin J. L. MoAiminnn v rality of openings therein, "frontlegs piv- Palms D. Bowman's, 

